M/C Journal 'print' Issue Launched

I produced the latest issue of M/C Journal last night, which was edited by my colleagues Glen Thomas and Jaz Choi:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 10 June 2005

                         M/C - Media and Culture
             is proud to present issue two in volume eight of

                               M/C Journal
                  http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

                'print' - Edited by Glen Thomas & Jaz Choi

Print culture has dominated the world - has left its imprint - for the last five hundred years, and traces back to Chinese inventions some two millennia earlier. Today its hegemony is under threat, some say, from the new communication technologies, while other claim that it will continue to metamorphose and even grow in strength as (hyper)text-based literacies are ever more crucial for personal and professional success. Whichever side of the coin we look at, the transitions in print culture are uneven and incomplete at this point - the paperless office has not arrived, and (our own and our many colleagues' efforts notwithstanding) electronic text remains seen as less trustworthy than what is printed 'in black and white'.

  Feature Article
"Information-Age Guerrillas: The Communication Strategies of the Zapatistas"
  - Bethaney Turner

The Zapatista guerillas have been using the Internet to spread their message of revolution in what has been characterised as a 'netwar', a post-modern form of disseminating information. Bethaney Turner's paper demonstrates that the use of networked technology in this fashion works in conjunction with traditional print culture rather than in opposition to it.

  Articles
"Intimate Technology?: Literature, Reading and the Argumentation Defending Book and Print"
  - Juri Joensuu

"Seal Culture Still Remains in Electronic Commerce"
  - Vicky Liu

"Nevermoreprint"
  - Scott A. Lukas

"Reflections on Adobe Corporation, Bill Viola, and Peter Ramus while Printing Lecture Notes"
  - Steven Maras

"Copyright, Print and Authorship in the Culture Industry"
  - Dougal Phillips and Oliver Watts

"Dimensions of Print"
  - Phillip Roe

"E-Press and Oppress: Audio Visual Print Drama, Identity, Text and Motion Picture Rebellion"
  - Robert Watson

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Upcoming M/C Journal issues in 2005:

'copy'   - article deadline:  6 May  2005
           - release date:     29 June 2005

'scan'   - article deadline:  1 July 2005
           - release date:     24 Aug. 2005

'review' - article deadline: 26 Aug. 2005
            - release date:     19 Oct. 2005

'affect' - article deadline: 21 Oct. 2005
          - release date:     14 Dec. 2005

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M/C Journal 8.2 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available.

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Visit all three M/C publications at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.

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All contributors are available for media contacts: mc@media-culture.org.au.

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